installation
SELECTED INSTALLATIONS
Amplified, 2010
Binary, 2009
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Platform, 2008
Low quality image of Platform as it moves slowly in a hallway.
Hidden Sounds of Silence, 2007
Materials: low rpm motor, music box element, nails, power cable, tape, wire, wood.
Additional info: This work acknowledges and mildly refers to the Marclay photo “The Sound of Silence” and the Duchamp sculpture “With Hidden Noise”.
12′48” sound clip
The occasional chime is from the installation. Because this work was installed in a public space, there are also many other ambient sounds on this recording.
32′40” sound clip
Recorded in the evening when less people were around.
Recorded 2007 in the Lichthof, Hochschule fur Gestaltung
Karlsruhe, Germany
Heart of Zelnick, 2006
photos of zelnick pavilion: 1, 2, 3
photos of people listening: chris, david, jennifer, kyle, marina, alvin
Preface to a Showdown: 3 Music Boxes, 2006
Materials: 20 Note Paper Strip Musical Movements, cd & minidisk players for automation, clappers, glue, motors, nails, paper, pine, plastic, plywood, power supplies, rubber, & wire
Bicycle Wheel Muse Sick and on its Final Delay, 2006
Materials: balsa wood, bolts, conductor’s podium, epoxy, iPod Shuffle, metal rod, motor, plastic, plastic gears, power supply, rubber tubing, Schwinn Sun Tour rear 10-speed bicycle wheel, speakers, threaded rod, & wire
Craps, 2006
Materials: black and white dice with paint removed
video 67′46”
Video documentation of all three works as they were exhibited in Zilkha Gallery in 2006. The first couple of minutes and the very end of the video are purposely without sound. The viewer may prefer to scroll through the video rather than watch it from beginning to end. descriptions [these optional descriptions are not meant to decode the works]
a low quality movie made before the space was officially open: clip
sound 26′35”
Stereo recording in Zilkha Gallery, 2006. This short sample was made using 2 Neuman microphones placed on the right side of the north gallery, Zilkha. Due to the nature of this recording, other unintentional sounds are present such as the ventilation system or a car driving past outside.
sound
Stereo recording from the center of the north gallery in Zilkha.
1.Nude Being Dressed by Swift Words Whilst Sleeping Furiously 2.Homunculus Being Violated (in a Swift Manner) Whilst Sleeping Furiously, 2005
description:
This work consists of two parts involving text from Jonathan Swift and Noam Chomsky. There are five separate channels of audio played back through 3 speakers and 1 wireless stereo headset. The first title pertains to the material played through the 3 speakers and the second title pertains to the material played through the stereo headset. All of the channels are synchronous in order for the second part to exist simultaneously within the context of the first. The meaning of each of the titles is allegorical and may be partially revealed by the simple use of pun.
The Owners, 2002
Headphones in Reverse, 2002
Untitled (interviews on the question “What do you think about the statement All opinions are equally valid?”), 2001
How to Quote Chomsky with no Appeal to Meaning: a Piece for Southern Accent 5′48”
Stereo mixdown, 1999. The actual installation is for multitrack playback through 8 speakers. One of the intentions behind this piece is to reveal the assumptions people may make based on a person’s accent, but there are many layers to this work. The first version also involved two collaboratively created visual elements according to my original concept: five film loops of the actor Dana Green crying, laughing, expressing anger, snobbishness, and fear, created by myself and Dov Scher; sculpture created by Dov Scher. This first version was installed at Northwestern University’s Dittmar Gallery in 1999. The work has been subsequently installed as multi-channel sound only. description
Patterns of Affect
17′03”
Silent video intended to loop. Recorded and edited in Cortona, Italy, 2007.
entertainer
(53′17”); (25”)
Recorded in Middletown, CT in 2006. Edited in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2007. Emily Ferrigno, accordion
These videos are not meant as documentation, rather they are the actual videos for the video installation entitled entertainer. The first video is almost an hour long. The second video is a compressed version of the first video; condensing what was previously almost an hour, down to less than 30 seconds. In the installation, the longer video is projected (as a large image) onto a wall with the sound playing through a loud speaker while the shorter video plays through a separate monitor (preferably very small in size) with its’ sound playing through headphones. The videos loop continuously for the duration of the exhibition.